Knitted fabric.



N10. 668,793. Patentqd feb. 26, IQ.

J. BRADLEY. KNITTED FABRIC.

(Application led Aug. 8, 1898.)

No Money).

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KmTTED FABRIC."

sencmca'rxolv forming para; df Lettes raient No. 668,793, ated February ae, 1901.-

' i Apuntes-on med Agua 6, 11898.. serial 116,637,921.- (Np specimens.)

. 'This invention relates to a new and useful 1 improvement-in knitted fabrics; audit con;

sists in theinovel features of construction and- 'relative arrangement of parts hereinafter, fully described in, the specification, clear-'ly illustratedin,thedralv'ings, and particularly' pointed out in the claimt' v i5 I 'Referencefisto be had totheaccompanying I sheet of drawings, forming af part of this 'ap- "plication, in which like. characters indicate like parts wherever they occur.

-Injthe drawings, Figure l represel-lts'inffront elevati'ona fabric constructed in accordance withlny invention, the several threads being separated orl loosened in' onder toshowtheir ,t relative arrangenient. l Fig. 2repre'sents`a conventional View of theligiished fabric.

. M-yimproved.fabric'is-coihposcd ofaseries b, combined'with-a kniltedweb formed from a knitted thread jf and co nlprising interlocking ,I lpops or-sttohes f" and the part ofthe thread.

'38 flying-between said lopsf and designated i' by thgsymlolfz.

infront of the .Warp-threads d-behind the i knitte'd loopswithi a pocke't between the warp-threads and thesaidlopps, resting on the part f2 ofv the knitted thread that extends purposeof illustration and as shown in the drawings the weft thread or threads may-be said to be arranged on Atop ol' the part f2of theknitted thread'. lt will be seenthat since the warp-threadsarc introduced into the fahrio without being strained orJhard-twisted,

warp-.threads aan'd 'a series of weft-threads the portion lf2 ofthe knitted thread between` the loops.- The weft-threads h a'rc arranged allround' back of the warpthread.' Foi" the-l Y arefincident to knitted websf,

, a nap, as desired -a-s 1s the case with the loom fahr1c,.the cloth has a much softer feeling! Moreover, by reason of theairangeinent ofthe warp and weft jthreads With eachother and with the knitted .55

web' my improved fabric-'may have any de-Li sireddegree ofvrmness.- After the fabric-has been knitted as above describedit-is fulled and ln'ishedbythe usual processes, producinga inishedfabric having a nap or without 6o AIt will beseen. that the fabric of this application is a yfinished clothe-that is' to say, a marketable product having the characteristics which are secured bythe processes which are followed in thetreatment'of loom-woven istic's which obviate the disadvantageswhich v The fabric is distinguished. from ordinary vknitted webs or fabrics inthat the threads are closely arranged, so that/,as in the case of 4 woven goods, the fabric may be fulled to form l a substantially uny'ieldingr body and finished to give thereto the desired surface. 'Woven 75 gcodshave not the structural characteristics v of my fabric, while the ordinar7 knitted webs or fabricslare e'lasti and have no structural features to enablesaid webs or fabrics to be. either fnllcd, or finished, or formed into the 'article described and claimed by me.y v

llaving 1 hns explained the nature of my invention and described a way of constructing and using the same.,thoughwithout attempting to sotv forth all''f the Ways in whichlit may be'nrade'm: all of the modes of itsuse, what I'claihn andidesire' to secure by Letters Patf ents; l.

lAn 'im proved. fabric comprising a knitted web, warp'and weft threads interwoven with, and bound byhe stitches of saidweb, the .threads lof saidlfabric being` closelyarranged as in' wd'ven goods, said` fabric being fulled '.'to prodihcc the effect of woven goods, and finished to giveithereto the desired surface.

.`In testimonywhereofl affix ln y signature in presence ofA two witnesses.

J OIIN BRADLEY. Witnesses: I i

.HENnv "l". RIPLEY, .l GEo. Y. Hohen.

goodsand having certain'strnctural cbaracter- 

